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When the army accuses Sam of disgracing the entire cause of the Confederacy and vows to hunt down his companion, the suspicion falls on three close buddies.
A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.
When Squire Petrick's dying wife admits that their new born child is not his, he takes steps to see that the boy is disinherited - but soon begins to regret his decision.
A disturbing vision of the afterlife as a killer is executed by lethal injection.
Every week, Polly and her mother go to the park. In the park, Polly enjoys the wonderful sunshine, wonderful breezes, wonderful colors and most importantly, the big wonderful silver slide.
Sick of the seemingly endless supply of cheating city professionals, Courtney and Stephanie head off to Texas to catch themselves a couple of cowboys.
The narrator's entrance into the afterlife is used to frame a story highlighting the pitiful conditions of one girl's working life.
Fantasy, in the vein of Jean Auel, about a lost tribe who's future is threatened by the encroachment of modern man. Contains descriptions of violence.
A case of mistaken identity leads to a passionate romance between Agatha and Oswald; but when Oswald goes to India on a scolarship, it seems to be the first in a series of events that conspire to keep them apart.
As the supply of fan mail dwindles, ageing screen icon Lana Lawn decides to invite a young student to dinner. Someone's in for a surprise.
An aspiring groom is given the task of designing an advertising campaign for the most disgusting cereal ever created.
An unusually religious Duke gets tired of petty party politics and replaces the members of the Houses of Parliament with Angels.
Typhoid enters a religious household. An emotional tale examining the morality of lies.
An insight into perhaps the strangest instance of marital delinquency on record.
A young woman is forced to reveal the terrible sin she has committed.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
